Our Vision: Comprehensive electronic clinical records that tell a patient’s complete health story.

Much of the information needed for patient care is locked in unstructured documents, such as transcribed notes. We work to unlock it by developing HL7 data standards that support information flow between narrative documents and EHR systems. Over the previous three years we've produced standards for seven common types of clinical documents - use of which supports the new HHS rules that define "meaningful use" of EHRs.

Access Audio and Slides From HL7 & Health Story Webinar: Exchange Basic Records and Meet Early Meaningful Use Requirements >> See Previous Events

Dr. John Halamka blogs about Discharge Summary standard >> More

New Project Underway: HL7 data standard for progress notes - volunteers welcome >> More

The HIMSS Analytics Study now includes questions on hospital readiness for Meaningful Use, including use of structured templates developed by the Health Story Project  >> More